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>> it was a big first. there were a lot of unique features and shopping centers built on such a grand scale with so much attention to aesthetic detail and really just imposing architecture. it was important to the northwest suburbs that the condition of the fact that this area was a boom town. just growing so rapidly and one of the more important areas of chicago at that time. the case i make in the book is it represented a lot of firsts in shopping center buildings. it is meant to be a case study to talk about all shopping centers and all malls and how they developed. the best analogy is it was the floodgate. >> victor bruin has been referred to as the father of the shopping mall. what features or design elements were considered unique at the time of the construction? >> victor drew in was an amazing story. there is a biography of him where i obtained my permission called lawmaker. he was a holocaust refugee who came from vienna in 1939 to america and one of the things that influenced him the most on his a
>> it was a big first. there were a lot of unique features and shopping centers built on such a grand scale with so much attention to aesthetic detail and really just imposing architecture. it was important to the northwest suburbs that the condition of the fact that this area was a boom town. just growing so rapidly and one of the more important areas of chicago at that time. the case i make in the book is it represented a lot of firsts in shopping center buildings. it is meant to be a...
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so i had this big battle about whether i was going to do the english assignment, and i remember saying to her in the midst of this heated discussion i didn't see the point during these assignments. they were a waste of time. i didn't see what to do this stuff and she said to me well, okay, you are obviously a bright kid and what you decide to do is find so what are we going to do here? and i said well, it seems to me that the point of this class is one, to make sure i have an understanding of the english language and research skills and i can make a coherent argument, so why don't you testing on that? she said why don't you mean? i said have me write something. she said fine, what are you going to write? i said why not a history of riots in america. she said okay. and i went off and several weeks later come back with i don't know how long it was that like a 140 page manuscript and she takes it home, comes back the next monday and this is okay i'm going to give you an essay for the course, but i don't -- i'm not really capable of evaluating this material and i make it from the project.
so i had this big battle about whether i was going to do the english assignment, and i remember saying to her in the midst of this heated discussion i didn't see the point during these assignments. they were a waste of time. i didn't see what to do this stuff and she said to me well, okay, you are obviously a bright kid and what you decide to do is find so what are we going to do here? and i said well, it seems to me that the point of this class is one, to make sure i have an understanding of...
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to afford but also too big to change politically. this is how a aaa country becomes aa, the first step on the march to greece." end of quotation. charles congratulat krauthammerl observer of the political scene, in his column friday in "the washington post" concluded with the following words: "obama faces two massive problems: jobs and debt. they're both the result of his spectacularly failed keynesian gamble, spendin spending that la stagnant economy with high and chronic unemployment and a stag staggering debt burden." and that's the problem, mr. president. a staggering debt burden that requires us to increase our debt ceiling and republicans are saying, in order to stop this cycle of more promises and more spending, we've got to apply some accountability, some common sense and good judgment, and that means, first and foremost, stop the spending. i would note, as i said before, that under president obama, annual spending has gone up by $1.2 trillion each of the years. the deficit by peds 1.4 trillion. and i ask again, do you notice
to afford but also too big to change politically. this is how a aaa country becomes aa, the first step on the march to greece." end of quotation. charles congratulat krauthammerl observer of the political scene, in his column friday in "the washington post" concluded with the following words: "obama faces two massive problems: jobs and debt. they're both the result of his spectacularly failed keynesian gamble, spendin spending that la stagnant economy with high and chronic...
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twice as big. and it would be great if all of it was constitutional, it could be great it was if it was all effective, if it was efficient and it would be great if we could afford it. but the fact is we're where we are today with $1.6 trillion deficits because we can't afford the government we have. and so we've not concentrated on the very areas where we can find mutual agreement, we've had three bipartisan bills in here where we've cut money, significant money, a billion here, $5 billion here, $7 billion here, go through the senate with vast majority votes only to go nowhere. because the allowance for the debate on the underlying bills was stopped. the bills were pulled. so what do we do? well, the first thing we do is we look at what the problems are. what are the problems? we have a hundred different programs with a hundred sets of bureaucracies for surface transportation alone. why do we do that? why haven't we fixed it? that's a question the american people ought to be asking. we have 82 prog
twice as big. and it would be great if all of it was constitutional, it could be great it was if it was all effective, if it was efficient and it would be great if we could afford it. but the fact is we're where we are today with $1.6 trillion deficits because we can't afford the government we have. and so we've not concentrated on the very areas where we can find mutual agreement, we've had three bipartisan bills in here where we've cut money, significant money, a billion here, $5 billion...
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and said it's like all doctors, he had a big deal and wanted everybody to know. the saturday evening post was the most popular periodical in the country. i was the place to brag. he also did it to vindicate efforts, as i said. the cap came out, it did indicate evers 24 years after the fact. he was glad that finally edwards reputation as a truthful correspondent was vindicated. it was very big news among media people had always wondered about this account that entered said written many years before. words was still among the living at the time and was very gratified by this and send keen a letter of praise. edwards should be much better remembered that he is, not just for this, but his other work in journalism, one of the early -- he worked with jacob riis, who, of course, how the other half lives. an early supporter of stephen crane. let him stay at his apartment when crane was struggling to write red badge of courage. one of the things that happened to edwards, his house was burned down in 1908. burned to the ground. he lost a lifetime of correspondence and clip
and said it's like all doctors, he had a big deal and wanted everybody to know. the saturday evening post was the most popular periodical in the country. i was the place to brag. he also did it to vindicate efforts, as i said. the cap came out, it did indicate evers 24 years after the fact. he was glad that finally edwards reputation as a truthful correspondent was vindicated. it was very big news among media people had always wondered about this account that entered said written many years...
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the floor here from the state of pennsylvania has come in and said defaulting on the debt is not that big a deal. it can be, quote in his words, easily managed. does the senator from arizona agree with that thinking? mr. mccain: as the senator may know, i came to the floor a couple of days ago and made that comment, and the senator from illinois and i are in agreement, point number one. you can prioritize -- i think the senator and every economist i know literally would agree. you can prioritize for awhile where you want what remaining money is left. but the message you send to the world, not just our markets but to the world, that the united states of america is going to default on its debts is a totally unacceptable scenario and beneath a great nation. we are in agreement, number one. mr. durbin: amen. mr. mccain: number two is that to insist, to insist that any agreement is based on the passage through the united states senate of a balanced budget amendment to the constitution of the united states, as i said before, is not fair to the american people because, because the terrible obstr
the floor here from the state of pennsylvania has come in and said defaulting on the debt is not that big a deal. it can be, quote in his words, easily managed. does the senator from arizona agree with that thinking? mr. mccain: as the senator may know, i came to the floor a couple of days ago and made that comment, and the senator from illinois and i are in agreement, point number one. you can prioritize -- i think the senator and every economist i know literally would agree. you can...
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indeed, that would just give a blank check to the big spenders. they could run for two years. and why is it so important to get a longer debt, bigger debt ceiling increase? and i also thought and believe we have an agreement that the debt ceiling shouldn't be increased more than spending is decreaseed. spending decreased over ten years. you cut $1 trillion, you raise the debt ceiling $1 trillion. we give you ten years on spending cuts, but immediately you get a $1 trillion increase in the debt ceiling. why are we in this fix? this is why. i hate to say it. this is why, there is no doubt about it. the president said last week the only bottom line that i have is that we extend this debt ceiling through the next election until
indeed, that would just give a blank check to the big spenders. they could run for two years. and why is it so important to get a longer debt, bigger debt ceiling increase? and i also thought and believe we have an agreement that the debt ceiling shouldn't be increased more than spending is decreaseed. spending decreased over ten years. you cut $1 trillion, you raise the debt ceiling $1 trillion. we give you ten years on spending cuts, but immediately you get a $1 trillion increase in the debt...
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the big sioux river to the missouri river. it's not a logical but in fact in its day it made sense in comparison to other states in the northwest jerkily. if that were on a lot it wouldn't look all the different. what when iowa camp for statehood with the proposed border, and samuel, a congressman from ohio opposed it, and what's important is in opposing it, he reminded the contras about jefferson's original vision of 1784 and how the congress in 1787 straight from the division. he then went on to say what has been the effect of this change? the vast region between the ohio, the leaks and the mississippi, goes illinois, wisconsin and michigan has been reduced from 12 to 14 states to five uppermost that can never have ten votes in the senate. as an equitable compensation to the western country for this flagrant injustice, i would make a series of small states on the opposite bank of the mississippi river. he then proposed to streamline border. iowa had a nonvoting delegate their who opposed this straight line. what's interestin
the big sioux river to the missouri river. it's not a logical but in fact in its day it made sense in comparison to other states in the northwest jerkily. if that were on a lot it wouldn't look all the different. what when iowa camp for statehood with the proposed border, and samuel, a congressman from ohio opposed it, and what's important is in opposing it, he reminded the contras about jefferson's original vision of 1784 and how the congress in 1787 straight from the division. he then went on...
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being elected, that was -- there was a study by a group of civil rights groups who had put together a big commission headed by two former secretaries of god, henry cisneros a democrat and i am drawing a blank on the republican from the state who used to play for all with the buffalos. yeah, jack kempe. the two of them were the heads of these two commissions and they studied the existence of housing discrimination and i will just quickly say because some of you may know about this, using audit studies. they demonstrated -- they issued their report in october. obama's elected in november. that report said racism still exist them what they were doing is looking up what happened in the last 40 years from 1968 when the housing act was established to 2008, 40 years later. so it still existed and i could give examples time permitted for almost every other institution in society. so this is what i meant. but every time that we start talking about racism people confuse racism with individuals. racism is not an individual. racism is an act. racism is not what one is. racism is what institutions do.
being elected, that was -- there was a study by a group of civil rights groups who had put together a big commission headed by two former secretaries of god, henry cisneros a democrat and i am drawing a blank on the republican from the state who used to play for all with the buffalos. yeah, jack kempe. the two of them were the heads of these two commissions and they studied the existence of housing discrimination and i will just quickly say because some of you may know about this, using audit...
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i am a big fan. but as much as i like to read hemingway's work, i am just as impressed with biographies on hemingway. i find him just as interesting as anything he ever wrote about. my question is the car,los baker biography from the 1860's is really the yardstick by which all other hemingway biographies are mentioned. i was impressed by one by jeffrey myers about 20 years a ago. my question is how does it measure up against the others and are there any others in the works? because i would love to, you know, i can't read enough about the man. >> you are always entering into difficult territory when you ask scholars to comment on the work of other scholars, but you are on, susan. >> ok. i am very much on the spot here. i absolutely share with you your admiration for baker's biography. it's a wonderful work. it's a little dated now because of, baker really couldn't write about some of the things that later biographers have gu beguno write about. if you want the best of all, you need to read michael rey
i am a big fan. but as much as i like to read hemingway's work, i am just as impressed with biographies on hemingway. i find him just as interesting as anything he ever wrote about. my question is the car,los baker biography from the 1860's is really the yardstick by which all other hemingway biographies are mentioned. i was impressed by one by jeffrey myers about 20 years a ago. my question is how does it measure up against the others and are there any others in the works? because i would love...
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the amount of money to big business has in the campaigns. this point in his life james gadson was a railroad president and 1853 the taxpayers in this country spent millions of dollars to acquire land so the railroads could build a railroad they could draw great profits from. but that wasn't his nightmare. the nightmare is the fact we didn't meet that land to create a seven continental railroad, transcontinental railroad. the white line that you see is the intention of the senate could be built without making this purchase and in the san francisco which is the great port. this when he was talking about ended at san diego which was just at that point in time a military base that went to the land where there was no commerce, no agriculture, no future for agriculture. why were they making a purchase way down there? they would suspect there's a hidden agenda and was fed by the fact that gadsden tried to purchase that land in orange and wasn't $50 million. he is authorized to spend up to $65 million. mexico didn't want to sell any land to the unit
the amount of money to big business has in the campaigns. this point in his life james gadson was a railroad president and 1853 the taxpayers in this country spent millions of dollars to acquire land so the railroads could build a railroad they could draw great profits from. but that wasn't his nightmare. the nightmare is the fact we didn't meet that land to create a seven continental railroad, transcontinental railroad. the white line that you see is the intention of the senate could be built...